Yellowstone has not revisited the storyline in a long while, and it’s been a mystery for years whether it was a plot thread that simply got dropped with no intention to ever pick it back up, or if there was a larger purpose behind it.
The first seasons of many series have featured plot points that get lost in the shuffle – hey there, Lost!
Over on Reddit, the user “phonebook29” suggested that Tate Dutton’s potential discovery of dinosaur bones back in Season 1 could play into saving the Duttons’ ranch.